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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Featuring Vicki Crooms...again!

It's time to start getting caught up again! I featured Vicki Crooms on June 27th and she shared her story and thoughts on the "Nekkid Barbies" in the antique stores...everyone fell in love with her! She recently shared a piece she just finished and it is spectacular! Here is her story...thank you for sharing Vicki...
Hugs, Cindy

Greetings from Alabama!
I am a hospital pharmacist working in Mobile, Alabama. At work we have several

drug patches that are designed to deliver medication through the skin. Although

I am campaigning for an Etsy patch to reduce my urge to shop at etsy.com, I hope

no one ever invents a drug patch that keeps me from wanting to make these

Cindy Needham inspired quilts!! That would be awful, because fellow quilters

I am addicted.
A co-worker who simply lives for antique shows and yard sales, Holley Moore,

has been on the hunt for vintage linens for me. She scored this pillowcase

sham for $1. She also found me an unbelievable linen shower curtain that

will eventually become even more spectacular than it is now.
I have made several small quilts using Cindy's methods of up cycling vintage

linens to get them out into the light again. Making each one is , quite simply,

more fun to invent and make than the last one!!
Quilters make quilts for many reasons. I made this quilt to honor my Mother,

whose photo is on the quilt. I scanned a photograph of my Mother onto organza

to be used in the middle of the piece. She is photographed wearing her wedding

dress on her wedding day in 1954. Peggy Gainey became Peggy Crooms on that day.

My mother was a Registered Nurse, whose favorite job was as an Operating Room

Nurse, although she also worked as a Nursing Home Nurse and Administrator

while she and my Dad raised 4 children. Unfortunately, she died from the

ravages of Alzheimer's Disease in February 2011.
Usually I have a name for my quilt early in the process, but I have not

come up with a good name for this piece yet.
The quilted feathers and leaves were sized to fit on my scanner, then

reprinted and traced onto water soluble solvy. After quilting those main

portions I started the close tiny stipple quilting that helps the larger

quilting portions to pop out. When I started sewing all those pearls on

I could see why Cindy looks forward to long plane trips. It would be a good